Two Years and a Half in the Navy; or, Journal of a Cruise in the Mediterranean and Levant, on Board the U.S. Frigate Constellation, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831.

Notes

The author attended synagogue services in Gibraltar (vol. 1, pp. 137, 141-43, 145) and Tunis (vol. 1, pp. 197-98). Notice his observation about Jewish and Maltese hawkers in Tripoli’s harbor area ("the most squalid, dirty, and degraded looking beings I ever saw," vol. 1, p. 128) For the Jews in Smyrna, see vol. 2, pp. 131-32 ("The Jews especially are beyond all endurance") and p. 144; Jews at Cassaba, a Turkish town famed for its melons, see vol. 2, p. 157. Bruntjen 17119.